Watch this video and write an “opinion article” to a fictitious local newspaper expressing your views on Gene Editing. Your article should be between 300 to 500 words.
What did you learn? What is your impression about the future of life? Especially the ones that are of importance to us – human, animals (pets, food animals like fish, chicken, beef etc.), plants (food crops, cash crops, horticulture, etc.) bacteria and viruses in research, medicine, drug development, etc. Do you agree that this technology can be misused? What proposal do you have for controlling inappropriate use of this process?
These are just guided questions to help you think through your paper. You don’t have to limit yourself to these.
If you have access to Netflix, you can also watch the documentary, Designer DNA. Go to Netflix.com/explained. Click the My List.
How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA (Links to an external site.) (a TED talk by Jennifer Doudna, the scientist who co-invented Crispr)
Chinese researcher claims first gene-edited babies
